Attack Surface Management
See and secure every cornerof your attack surface.
Always-on visibility and control over your organisation’s digital attack surface, from shadow IT and cloud sprawl to forgotten assets, before attackers find them.
Understanding Attack Surface Management
A full, always-on picture of your digital estate.
Attack Surface Management is the process of discovering, monitoring and remediating vulnerabilities across every digital asset connected to your organisation: known and unknown systems, applications, cloud instances, devices and third-party services.
Why it matters: with unauthorised software, multiple cloud services and outside vendors in the mix, weak spots multiply. By mapping your attack surface in real time, CyberQ helps you reduce exposure, stay compliant and keep your security team a step ahead.
Features
Everything you needto see your exposure.
Six capabilities that find every asset and focus effort where the risk is highest.
Continuous discovery
Identify every asset, including shadow IT and forgotten cloud instances, as it appears.
Risk-based prioritisation
Focus resources on the vulnerabilities most likely to lead to compromise.
External attacker’s view
See how cybercriminals perceive and target your environment.
Real-time monitoring
Your risk profile updates with every system or configuration change.
Remediation guidance
Clear recommendations to fix misconfigurations, vulnerabilities and gaps.
Stronger compliance
Show auditors and regulators proactive asset management and risk reduction.
The challenges it solves
Built for estatesthat keep growing.
Digital transformation, cloud adoption and new suppliers expand your attack surface faster than teams can track it.
01
Blind spots
Rapid change, mergers and decentralised buying leave assets nobody is watching.
02
Shadow IT & cloud sprawl
Tools and services adopted outside official oversight, across multiple cloud providers.
03
Forgotten assets
Legacy servers, test environments and third-party integrations quietly widen exposure.
04
Reactive security
Issues fixed after incidents, while regulators expect visibility across your whole estate.
By the numbers
The threatin numbers.
-7 days
mean time to exploit a new vulnerability: exploited before a patch exists
Source: Mandiant M-Trends 2026
31%
of breaches start with vulnerability exploitation, now ahead of stolen credentials (13%)
Source: Verizon DBIR 2026
29
UK incidents handled by the NCSC traced to just three edge-device and server flaws
Source: NCSC Annual Review 2025
34%
of UK businesses apply security updates within 14 days
The onboarding process
Up and running,then always improving.
Six steps to establish visibility, prioritise risk and fit ASM into your existing operations.
01
Scoping & discovery
Agree domains, IP ranges and cloud providers, then map your attack surface.
02
Analysis & prioritisation
Categorise assets and rank vulnerabilities by business risk.
03
Reporting & guidance
Clear recommendations in executive and technical reports.
04
Security operations
Feed findings into your existing security tools.
05
Monitoring & alerts
Real-time alerts and scheduled reviews keep exposure in check.
06
Review & optimise
Regular reviews align the service with new priorities and threats.
Related services
Strengthen yourprotection further.
Services that work alongside Attack Surface Management to close the gaps it finds.
Vulnerability Management
Continuous scanning and expert analysis of weaknesses across your estate.
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Penetration Testing
CREST-accredited testers find the gaps before attackers do.
Learn more
Managed XDR
Always-on threat detection and response from CyberQ’s Security Operations Centre.
Learn more
Cyber Maturity Assessment
Understand your maturity and where to invest first.
Learn more
Case study
Attack Surface Managementin action.
UK-based manufacturing company with international sites
Over 200 unknown resources found, and unknown assets cut by 75% in six months.
Service: Attack Surface Management
The challenge
After moving to multiple cloud providers, the business had no central view of its IT estate and was worried about shadow IT and supply chain exposure.
The approach
CyberQ deployed Attack Surface Management to scan and monitor every digital asset continuously, ranked high-risk issues by business impact, and worked with the internal IT team on remediation.
The result
Within six months, critical cloud misconfigurations were fixed, board reporting improved, and the business could show measurable risk reduction to regulators and insurers.
200+
previously unknown resources found, including misconfigured cloud storage and test environments
75%
reduction in unknown assets within six months
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FAQs
Questions,answered.
What organisations most often ask us about Attack Surface Management. Can’t find your question? Speak to one of our experts.
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A continuous service that discovers, monitors and helps remediate vulnerabilities across every digital asset connected to your organisation, including the ones you didn’t know you had.
Scanning checks the assets you already know about. ASM continuously discovers new and forgotten assets first, then shows how an attacker would see and target them.
Domains, IP ranges, cloud instances, applications, devices and third-party services, internal and external.
Discovery starts during onboarding, so you get an early map of your attack surface followed by prioritised recommendations.
Yes. It demonstrates proactive asset management and vulnerability reduction to auditors, regulators and insurers.
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